in order go to the church and school where the people evacuated.monday night's distribution was a little over 30 bags only, and with my 3-yr old son euan in tow, it was frightening... at first he didn't know why we had to ride a banca, but with a lot of explanation, i think he was able to understand...
seeing that what we had distributed was not enough, we decided to set another distribution by thursday...we sent email and text brigade to ask for donations...it was not hard to mobilize our sfc friends...and so by wednesday, we re-packed goods and clothes at our place...we also sought help to our CFC south sector office - monday night they gave us clothes, blankets, water and 3 boxes of ready to eat food and by thursday, the gave clothes and food at 200 bags each plus ready to eat food like kamote, egg and bread!!! god really is good!
and so yesterday, at around 11am we went to the area again, this time with almost 20 volunteers, most were from YFC South B. good thing they were with us because it was difficult to transport and unload 4 bancas full of relief goods! i am so thankful for the people who have helped us even for a very short notice because we were all so desperate to get there the soonest. some even offered rubber and pump boats but it wasn't feasible to use them due to narrow roads in aplaya. the distribution went well but it took us til 4pm to send it out to the evacuees.
i just feel so bad that i was not able to bring enough money to feed the volunteers. we were all hungry, buti na lang masaya kasama ang mga YFC, kung nakakabusog lang ang tawa, malamang bundat na kami :D
through it all, i am humbled by the experience. i feel blessed after seeing what others went through but my heart goes out to them because they have to start building thier lives all over again knowing that many of them were not able to save any belongings...
right now, we are still seeking for donations... how we can be able to sustain their needs after this week? i don't know... but what comforts me is knowing that the Lord will provide us with more blessings so we can fill their needs ... i know that God has a hand on this... no matter how big the challenge may be, God is so much bigger and greater than all this. and i still believe that despite of what happened, our nation is still blessed.
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here's my son helping us out in sorting the goods... i'm so proud of him.. young as he is, he already knows how to share :)
